I have sent you a copy of the first
installment of the Tribe's pamphlet "The Tribes and the States." Not my
pamphlet, but the Tribe's―compiled and edited by the Okamakammessets, and
issued by the American Independence Society. The charge is 50˘, but no real
hurry.

I am sorry I have no better news to
report so far. Took another Civil Service exam, and was informed that I passed
the state clerical exam, and I am No. 254―not so encouraging.

The Independence Society is getting
together a new one―a collection of poems of American Liberty. I heard also last week that the "Tribe" is planning to get out
its history in a new form―a monthly issue, each time to be dated some past
date and describing the history of that time as current news.

Sorry things are going worse over in
N.Y. Better luck for next time!

W. J. Sidis

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197 Warren Ave.
Boston, Mass
[Wednesday,] Aug. 14, 1935

I have got hold of three more copies
of "The Tribes and the States," and sent them to you, as you ordered.
I do wish it to be understood that, as the pamphlet states in the introduction,
it is not to be considered to be the work of any individual, but of an
organisation. I may have helped on it, but I certainly do not want to be
considered the author, as there are lots of things there I would not care to
take personal responsibility for; so please do not represent the pamphlet to
anyone as my work.

That tribal organisation just surprised me by
sending―from some place in New Hampshire I never heard of before, an
historical newspaper written in American, and which seemed to be good and
exciting stuff. Hope they can keep it up.

"The following mimeographed
pamphlets may be ordered through Continuity News: The Tribes and the States (a new version of American history), 50˘.

per section. These sections are now
ready, coveringhistory
to 1689."

Transfer of The
Tribes and the States to the Wampanoag Nation

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From a blogger:

"It
is hard to be fair to Sidis from this distance. His book The Tribes and
The States, about the 100,000-year history of American Indians, is
insanely wrong. He gets their
genetics, languages, and government badly wrong.
But I am not certain what knowledge was available to him in the early 20th
C. Though his theories did not turn out to be true, he may have had ideas
worth exploring – no worse than the theories of other experts – based on
what was known. I suspect not. He also believed in Atlantis, which figures
prominently in his discussion, and reads into the known historical record
with great certainty things that even then would have been highly
speculative. He insists that “farthest Thule,” where Phoenicians and
others raided for slaves was Newfoundland. There is simply no evidence
this is so."